Enabling Things to Talk

The IoT-Architecture project (IoT-A) is the European Commission’s flagship project in the European Union’s Seventh Framework Program for Research and Development with respect to establishing an architecture for the Internet of Things. Together, the editors and contributing authors represent more than 20 large industrial companies and research institutions, including Alcatel-Lucent, IBM , Ericsson, NEC, NXP, SAP, Siemens, and the Universities of Rome “La Sapienza,” St. Gallen, Surrey, and Würzburg, as well as CEA, CFRG, FhG, and VTT.

• Introduction to the Internet of Things.- The Need for a Common Ground for the IoT — The History and Reasoning Behind the IoT — A Project.- The IoT Architectural Reference Model as Enabler.- IoT in Practice: Examples — IoT in Logistics and Health.- IoT — A Guidance to the ARM.- A Process to Generate Concrete Architectures.- IoT Reference Model.- IoT Reference Architecture.- The IoT ARM Reference Manual.- Interactions.- Toward a Concrete Architecture.- ARM Testimonials.- Summary and Outlook.

From the reviews: "If your goal is to learn or employ IoT technologies, this book serves as a worthy starting point for that journey; you will certainly benefit from having it in your library for future reference." Nicholas Loulloudes, ACM Computing Reviews, June 2014